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WATG16

7:30am CDT

On-Site Pre-Conference Session Registration Registration 1

7:45am CDT

Pre-Conference Continental Breakfast Ballroom hallway

8:30am CDT

PreCon 1: Engaging and Challenging All Learners: Making it possible using DOK levels Wilderness Ballroom 1/4 PreCon 2: Supporting Wellness in Our Gifted Students Sandstone Ballroom 3 PreCon 3: Maximizing Potential via Structures and Strategies Tundra A-B PreCon 4: Help! I'm a New Coordinator! Tundra E-F PreCon 5: Personalization for Advanced Learners Using Technology Sandstone Ballroom 8-9

11:00am CDT

On-Site Conference Registration Registration 1 Vendor Exhibits, Art Exhibits, Silent Auction (ends at noon on Friday!) Sandstone Ballroom

11:45am CDT

Lunch Ballroom hallway

12:45pm CDT

Opening Remarks Sandstone Ballroom

1:00pm CDT

Keynote: Building Comprehensive Gifted Services that Embrace Diversity: Beyond Imagining Sandstone Ballroom

2:15pm CDT

1A: Goal Setting & Progress Monitoring with Advanced Learners Wilderness Ballroom 1 1B: How Do We Identify for Subject Acceleration? Wilderness Ballroom 4 1C: Leadership Camp for Fourth Graders Tundra A-B 1D: Poverty: The Impact on Students and What We Can Do Tundra C-D 1E: Using Google Classroom to Extend Learning Tundra E-F 1AEXH: Using Assessment with Validity and Equity for Identification (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Sandstone Ballroom 3 1EXH: Inquiry Learning and Leadership in the GT classroom (Great Books Foundation) Sandstone Ballroom 8-9

3:30pm CDT

Sponsored snack break Ballroom hallway

3:45pm CDT

2A: Sparking Innovation: Creativity and Code Wilderness Ballroom 1 2B: Differentiation and Independent Studies for GT Wilderness Ballroom 4 2C: Planting the Seeds of a Growth Mindset Tundra A-B 2D: Nurture Culturally, Linguistically Gifted Learners Tundra C-D 2E: One Small School's Journey to Implement the Total School Cluster Model Tundra E-F 2F: Perfect and Introverted Sandstone Ballroom 3 2EXH: Lead your GT department with Inquiry (Great Books Foundation) Sandstone Ballroom 8-9

5:00pm CDT

Unconference - Networking / Cash Bar & Appetizers / Silent Auction / Exhibitors / Book Signing TBA

7:00am CDT

Vendor Exhibits, Art Exhibits, Silent Auction (silent auction ends at noon on Friday!) Sandstone Ballroom

7:30am CDT

On-Site Conference Registration Registration 1

7:45am CDT

Breakfast Ballroom hallway

8:30am CDT

Opening Remarks Sandstone Ballroom Teen Conference Glacier Breakout Rooms A-D

8:45am CDT

Keynote: The Key Elements of Gifted Performance Sandstone Ballroom

10:15am CDT

3A: Acceleration A to Z: What Does the Research Say About the Practice? Sandstone Ballroom 3 3B: Sweet to be Me: Planning a Social-Emotional Day Sandstone 9 3C: Curricular Materials for Teaching Problem Solving Tundra A-B 3D: Cells That Fire Together, Wire Together Tundra C-D 3E: Fostering Success in an Inclusion Setting Tundra F 3F: Parent to Parent: Sharing Your Wisdom Sandstone 8 3EXH: Empowering Personalized Learning with Thinking Maps Tundra E

11:30am CDT

Lunch/Awards/Annual Meeting Sandstone Ballroom

12:45pm CDT

4A: Motivation Paradigms in Gifted Education and their Application to Students from Underrepresented Groups Sandstone Ballroom 3 4B: Executive Function Challenges - What to do? Sandstone 9 4C: NUMATS & Parents: How to interpret scores and advocate for your child Sandstone 8 4D: Innovation for Educators: Design Thinking Tundra C-D 4E: Differentiating Math Workshop in a Primary Classroom (K-1) Tundra F 4F: The 3R's of 'Pushing In': Reasonable, Responsive, & Reflective Tundra E 4EXH: Meeting the Needs of Mathematically Talented Students in Grades 3-6 (Kendall Hunt) Tundra A-B

1:45pm CDT

Sponsored beverage break Ballroom hallway

2:00pm CDT

5A: How 3D Construction Projects Teach Coding Sandstone 8 5B: Five Steps to Better GT Identification Sandstone Ballroom 3 5C: Differentiation in the K12 Literacy Classroom Tundra C-D 5D: Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student Tundra F 5E Creativity: Advanced Learning in the Arts Tundra E 5F: Negotiating Change in your School District Sandstone 9

3:00pm CDT

Conference Evaluation TBA